National NAPLAN results are released today, putting the spotlight on students’ numeracy and literacy skills.
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Whenever a major test suffers a glitch, questions are immediately asked about a return to pens and paper.
If the results are disappointing, try not to catastrophise them. For one thing, NAPLAN was done about four months ago – students will have made progress since then.
Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the government appears to be trying again.
The results from the 2023 ‘Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study’ were released on Wednesday night. Year 8 students, who also did the test, held steady.
Parents can now search how their child’s school has performed in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy.
As part of a new study, Year 7 students got $20 vouchers if they reached personalised goals in their NAPLAN tests.
The new government needs to tread carefully as it looks to reintroduce standardised testing. A one size fits all approach to testing students can have negative consequences for everyone involved.
Two researchers independently studied Australian students’ results. These papers both reached the same conclusions: scores on the vast majority of standardised assessments are not in decline.
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